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There are a million house rules out there for cribbage. That is why the ACC and American Cribbage Congress standardized cribbage rules for competitive. You can view those rules at www.cribbage.org. You can make up whatever rules you want. just don't think that they are in any way official rules of cribbage.

In competitive cribbage you can only do this when you are on the playoffs and the score differential does not matter. You CANNOT do this in the qualifying rounds because a: you are only playing one game against that person and two: the point differential matters. When you are comparing players or a group of players, the point differential can be a tie breaker. First you look at game points (0 for loss, 2 for win and 3 for skunk), then total games won (out of 9 or 22) then the score differential of pluses and minus. For instance a scorecard in cribbage might look like this 13/6 +52. That means that the player won 6 games, one of them was a skunk and they're plus points for the night were added and subtracted up to be +52. Compare that to another player who has a 13/6 +50 and the +52 is a higher position than the other player due to the point differential. In playoffs (best of 3/5 or 2/3 etc) point differentials do not matter and loser deals, so yes you can forfeit the remainder of the game and move onto the next game if you so desire. Hope that makes sense.

This is not poker, they are not straights, but the answer to your questions is yes. Runs of ANY connected sequence of cards in ANY order, that have not been broken score one point for each card in the run/sequence.

The way we did it was that the first 4 players dealt to would get 5 cards and the 5th player dealt to would only get 4 cards. Makes it tough to be that 5th player but I guess you could deal each player 5 cards and the 5th player just discards to the deck instead of the crib.

3 ( Player-1)
4 ( Player-2)
5 (3 points for Player-1)
6 (4 points for Player-2)
7 (5 more points for Player-1)
2 ( Player 2 says run for 6)
"Go" ( Player 1)
A ( Player 2 says now a run for 7) plus the go for 8

So does Player 2 get both of those last two runs and the go for 15 more points. Or do you only count the run for 7 and go for 8 points??

Yes, his nobs counts a point in the crib. This is why people are reluctant to discard a jack to the opponent's crib!

Here's an easy rule to remember: The ONLY difference between scoring the crib and the hand is in the flush rule. Only a 5-flush counts in the crib, while the hand can have a 4- or a 5-flush. Everything else is the same.

putting down a 6 then player Player 2 plays a 3... then eventually we get 6,3,7,4,5. Player 1 gets 5 points for a run putting the 5 down. Player 2 plays a 2..... 6,3,7,4,5,2 which would be a run for 6 points. Then Player 1 says "go" being 27 total and he can't play his last card but then Player 2 can still go and puts down an Ace... 6,3,7,4,5,2,Ace which continues the run for 7 points.

So does Player 2 get 14 points for the run of 6 plus the player 1 saying go and playing another card to make it a run of 7 after the go and getting a point for go. 6+7+1?

Or is it only 8 since the Player 1 said go and you would only count the seven card run and the go. 7+1.